Samuel Smith (Maryland)

Samuel Smith (27 July 1752-22 April 1839) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Maryland's 5th district from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding William Vans Murray and preceding Nicholas Ruxton Moore) and from 31 January 1816 to 17 December 1822 (succeeding Moore and preceding Isaac McKim), and a US Senator from Maryland from 4 March 1803 to 4 March 1815 (succeeding John Eager Howard and preceding Robert Goodloe Harper) and from 17 December 1822 to 3 March 1833 (succeeding William Pinkney and preceding Joseph Kent). He was a Democratic-Republican and a Democrat.

Biography
Samuel Smith was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1752, and he moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland in 1759. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. From 1790 to 1792, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates, and, as a Brigadier-General, he commanded the state's militia during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. In 1814, as a Major-General of the Maryland militia, he commanded Baltimore's defenses against the British during the War of 1812.

Smith entered into national politics as a member of the US House of Representatives from Maryland's 5th district, serving from 1793 to 1803 and from 1816 to 1822 as a Democratic-Republican; he later served as a US Senator from 1803 to 1815 and from 1822 to 1833. From 1835 until his retirement in 1838, Smith also served as Mayor of Baltimore. He died in Baltimore in 1839.